D3dshader failed to compile and create pixel shader

[Evilus]

Hey everyone.

First of I would like to say good work on the emulator. I have been using it for quite some time. I recently installed it on my laptop and am having a strange error which I cannot find the reason for. I tried googling it and didn't get any good results and searched here also.

"Failed to compile and create pixel shader"9 in D3dshader.cpp. 149

I have dx11 installed but I am using the dx9 plugin in dolphin since my laptop does not support dx10+. Could that be the reason that it is not working properly?

I am using 64bit version of dolphin. And I do have latest direct x installed.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards
Evilus

[neobrain]

In User/Config/gfx_dx9.ini change the line

Code:

ShowShaderErrors = False

to

Code:

ShowShaderErrors = True

if there is no line with that contents (double check!!), add it under the [Settings] section.

This should give more verbose info about what failed about compiling the shader, please post any other error messages you get with that here.

[Evilus]

Ah neat cool, thanks for help. Yes it did show a bit more.

Here is what it showed(see attachment)

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Ah neat cool, thanks for help. Yes it did show a bit more.

Here is what it showed(see attachment)

[neobrain]

what gpu are you using?

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and with which games does this error occur, or with all?

[Evilus]

Well gpu is kind of old on laptop it is radeon x1250. I have tried with several games. Tried paper mario for example. On paper mario it appears on start of game and then I can press ok like 20 times to pass it and then it appears every time I go down a green tube. Then I tried mario party 7 also on start. Tested a bunch of other games too...
What I noticed is it works perfectly fine otherwise, all of the games tested. No lagg or slowdowns. FPS is 50+ all the time, only not in those cases when this error appears.

Been trying opengl too but does not work as well kinda slow all the time.

[alvacoar]

I have the same same problem. I can't seem to get pass the title screen in Super Mario Sunshine or Luigi's Mansion without the message "Failed to compile and create pixel shader, .\Src\D3Dshader.cpp 149" can you help.

[Starscream]

"ATI Radeon X1250 IGP is not referred to as an ATI Radeon express X1250 IGP since it lacks a Vertex Shader, which is a heavy performance cost." Need to find out exactly which card that is.

alvacoar, what video card do you have?

[Xtreme2damax]

If it lacks pixel/vertex shaders, there is your problem. You will need a new gpu, while games might boot it won't be without a performance cost and corrupted graphics.